Headache Clinic
Tension-type headache is the most common cause of headache; migraine affects 11% of adults worldwide, with an estimated 18% of headache patients having a secondary disorder. The most common associated cause is painkiller overuse headache. Migraine is a brain disease that ranks globally as the second leading cause of disability in terms of years lived with disability. The disabling effects of migraine are associated with substantial loss of productivity as well as significant socioeconomic costs.
Migraine is one of the leading causes of neurological consultation worldwide; Unfortunately, it is very common to hear the following phrases:
"You have to live with the pain"
"There is no cure for migraines"
"There is nothing for this"
"It will go away"
"With time it will go away"
"It is a hereditary problem"
"Resign yourself, it is the same thing that my aunt suffered...!"
“There is no treatment for this”
“Well, take a painkiller”
Migraine
It is the second most prevalent neurological disorder worldwide and is responsible for more disabilities than all other neurological disorders combined.
Everyone thinks of migraine as a broken heart: “it hurts, but it’s not fatal” (but it does hurt).
Between one-quarter and one-third of migraine patients have transient focal neurological symptoms before or during some of their headaches “aura” – these can be like flashes of light in the eyes, a feeling of numbness in some part of the body, even in extreme cases, weakness of a part of the body. Some patients also experience a prodromal phase, which occurs hours or days before the headache and/or a postdromal phase after the headache has resolved. Prodromal and postdromal symptoms include hyperactivity, hypoactivity, depression, cravings for certain foods, repetitive yawning, fatigue and stiffness and/or neck pain.
At the Galenia Hospital Headache Clinic, by providing a comprehensive medical approach to patients with headaches, we offer first-class medicine with a human, ethical, scientific approach and in compliance with international protocols.
